Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — Snakes That Got Into the Papers. [ARTICLE]

Snakes That Got Into the Papers.

A rattlesnake with thirteen rattles was recently killed by a voting woman in Sylvania, Ga. Jacob Horn, a farmer,of No. 12 Station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, did not die from the bite of the snake, but afrom the whisky administered afterward In quart doses. A young spotted adder was killed in the basement kitchen cf a lady living in Clinton, N. 8. She was about to pick it up, supposing it waa a strap with which her little boy had been playing. The Jackson Herald says that while T. F. Daniels was cleaning a fish on the bank of a creek, a water moccasin jumped from the stream, snatched the fish from hts hand, and made off with Jefferson Davis, ’of Sanderson, Ga., came across a rattlesnake while going through his field. He cut it in two.and was poking the upper part with a Htick when it turned and fatally bit him on the hand. ' While making repairs on a house near BevUport, Texas, the workmen removed an old cypress block, the heart of which had decayed. In the cavity were found enough young rattlesnakes to fill a bucket. Mrs. Myers, of Cash Valley, Md., was attacked by an immense black snake while going to her dairy over a spring,and held it fast to her clothing until she reached her kitchen door, where her husband killed it. The largest snake of Its species ever killed in Garret County, Md., was re-

feet in length and six inches in diameter, and had sixteen rattles. James Coddington, of Thom peon County, N. Y., had no fear of snakes, find wnen be had been bitten by a very large pilot he simply shook it off, killed it, and sucked the poison from the wound. He then went home and applied poultices of black and white ash, ana is now oat of danger. Mrs. Henry Hoe, living in Coff e County Ga., was bitten on the foot bv a rattlesnake. ’Shifhurried home ai.d bathed the foot in salt and water. That stopped both the swelling and the pain. Lister in the day reaction caused the foot to swell again, and the pain was so intense that the woman became insensible. But, despite all these alarming symptoms, she recovered.